McEachern Races Past North Cobb In Season Opener

The McEachern Lady Indians shook off a sluggish start to win their season opener against defending region 4-6A champion North Cobb 71-48.

North Cobb used a 6-0 run to take a 17-7 lead with 2:45 remaining in the first quarter. McEachern turned to their trademark pressure defense and uptempo style to finish the quarter on an 8-0 run and trailed 17-15 at the end of the quarter. Behind sophomore Jada Lewis McEachern continued their run opening the second quarter with seven quick points. Lewis nailed a three-pointer to give McEachern the lead 18-15 and followed it up with back-to-back lay-ups to cap a 15-0 run and McEachern never trailed again.

McEachern continued to use its pressure defense to force turnovers to get easy fast break baskets while connecting on eight three-pointers in the game -four by Taylor Gordon, cruising to the 23 point victory as nine Lady Indians scored.

Up next for the Lady Indians (1-0) are road games at Marietta and Norcross before traveling to Nashville, TN to play in a Thanksgiving Weekend.

In the boy games Freddie Brown scored 13 and Logan McIntosh chipped in 11 as McEachern pulled away in the second half outscoring North Cobb 37-18 in the half to defeat North Cobb 53-33. North Cobb did not have a double figure scorer as Noah Cotton had a team high 9.